Engaging with Emotions - The Role of Emotion in HCI

                    Call for Participation

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                     The 2006 Workshop on
                   The Role of Emotion in HCI

                        to be held at the
                HCI 2006 conference, London, UK

                    Tuesday, 12 September 2006

                  http://www.emotion-in-hci.net
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Deadline for Abstracts: June 27, 2006


Objectives:

The topic of emotion in Human-Computer Interaction is of increasing interest to the HCI community. Since Rosalind Picard's fundamental publications on affective computing, research in this field has
gained significant momentum.

Emotion research is largely grounded in psychology yet spans across numerous other disciplines. The challenge of such an interdisciplinary research area is developing a common vocabulary and research framework that a mature discipline requires. What is increasingly needed for advanced and serious work in this field is to place it on a rigorous footing, including developing theoretical fundamentals of HCI-related emotion research, understanding emotions' function in HCI, ethical and legal issues, and the practical implications and consequences for the HCI community.

The first workshop on emotion in HCI held in Edinburgh last year brought an interdisciplinary group of practitioners and researchers together for a lively exchange of ideas, discussion of common problems, and identification of domains to explore.

This year's workshop will build on the success of last year. Focus will be on discussion and joint work on selected topics.
Participants will engage in developing further the themes from the first workshop in as wide an application spectrum as possible, such
as internet applications, ambient intelligence, office work, control rooms, mobile computing, virtual reality, presence, and home applications.

You are cordially invited to become part of this interdisciplinary forum. This will be a very practical workshop with the participants working together to find new insights, views, ideas and solutions.
We therefore invite contributions which will enrich the discussions by their innovative content, fundamental nature, or new perspective. We also encourage demos of products or prototypes related to the topic.

Topics addressed by the workshop are:

• How do applications currently make use of emotions and how could it be improved?
• What makes applications that support affective interactions successful?
• How do we know if affective interactions are successful, and how can we measure this success?
• What value might affective applications, affective systems, and affective interaction have?
• What requirements on sensing technologies are there in HCI?
• What technology is currently available for sensing affective states?
• How reliable is sensing technology?
• Are there reliable and replicable processes to include emotion in HCI design projects?
• What opportunities and risks are there in designing affective applications?
• What are the relationships between emotion, affect, personality, and engagement, and what do they mean for interactive systems design?

To become part of this discussion please submit an extended abstract of your ideas or demo description. Case studies describing current applications or prototypes are strongly encouraged, as well as presentations of products or prototypes that you have developed.
The abstract should be limited to about 800 words. Accepted contributions will be published on the workshop's homepage with the possibility to extend them to short papers of 4 pages. It is also planned to produce a special issue of a journal on the results of the workshop.

Please note that registration to the HCI conference is required in order to take part in the workshop (at least for the day of the workshop).

Dates:
27 June      - position paper deadline
11 July      - notification of acceptance
21 July      - early registration deadline
12 September - workshop

For a more detailed description of the workshop visit the workshop's web site: http://www.emotion-in-hci.net/workshopHCI2006/

Submit your position paper/demo description (800 words) to
submissions at emotion-in-hci dot net

For inquiries use
info at emotion-in-hci dot net

The conference web site with registration information is
http://www.bcs-hci.org.uk/hci2006/


Workshop committee:

Christian Peter, Fraunhofer IGD Rostock, Germany
Lesley Axelrod, Brunel University, UK
Elizabeth Crane, University of Michigan, USA
Russell Beale, University of Birmingham, UK
Ruth Aylett, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, UK
Barbara Fredrickson, University of North Carolina, USA
Kristina Höök, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden Bodo Urban, Rostock University, Rostock, Germany
John Waterworth, Umeå University, Sweden
Nicola Millard, British Telecom plc, UK
Karina Oertel, Fraunhofer IGD Rostock, Germany
Jörg Voskamp, Fraunhofer IGD Rostock, Germany
Robert Ward, University of Huddersfield, UK
Steffen Mader, Fraunhofer IGD Rostock, Germany